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Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 08:01 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

OKAY: Paris Hilton and Britany Spears Get sent home even though they are risking lives, yet Snipes Goes to jail over Misdemeanor tax violations.

You can bet that the New York Cops who fired 50 bullets in the process of murdering the unarmed Sean Bell will get LESS jail time (if they get ANY jail time at all).

Whenever America wants to prove a point and set a tough legal precedent, they do it on the back of a Black man.

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Judge sentences Snipes to 3 years for tax convictions

By TRAVIS REED – 45 minutes ago

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison on tax charges Thursday, a victory for prosecutors who sought to make an example of the action star by aggressively pursuing the maximum penalty.

Snipes' lawyers had spent much of the day in court offering dozens of letters from family members, friends — even fellow actors Woody Harrelson and Denzel Washington — attesting to the good character of the "Blade" star and asking for leniency. They argued he should get only probation because his three convictions were all misdemeanors and the actor had no previous criminal record.

But U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges said Snipes exhibited a "history of contempt over a period of time" for U.S. tax laws, and granted prosecutors the three year sentence they requested — one year for each of Snipes' convictions of willfully failing to file a tax return.

"In my mind these are serious crimes, albeit misdemeanors," Hodges said.

Snipes apologized while reading from a written statement for his "costly mistakes," but never mentioned the word taxes.

"I am an idealistic, naive, passionate, truth-seeking, spiritually motivated artist, unschooled in the science of law and finance," Snipes said.

Snipes said his wealth and celebrity attracted "wolves and jackals like flies are attracted to meat." He called himself "well-intentioned, but miseducated."

Snipes was the highest-profile criminal tax target in years, and prosecutors called for a heavy sentence to deter others from trying to obstruct the IRS. The government alleged Snipes made at least $13.8 million for the years in question and owed $2.7 million in back taxes.

Snipes was acquitted in February of five additional charges, including felony tax fraud and conspiracy. Snipes' co-defendants, Douglas P. Rosile and Eddie Ray Kahn, were convicted on both those counts. Kahn, who refused to defend himself in court, was sentenced to 10 years, while Rosile received 54 months. Both will serve three years of supervised release. Snipes will serve one year of supervised release.

Snipes and Rosile remain free and will be notified when they are to surrender to authorities.

Kahn was the founder of American Rights Litigators, and a successor group, Guiding Light of God Ministries, that purported to help members legally avoid paying taxes. Rosile, a former accountant who lost his licenses in Ohio and Florida, prepared Snipes' paperwork.

Snipes maintained in a years-long battle with the IRS he did not have to pay taxes, using fringe arguments common to "tax protesters" who say the government has no legal right to collect. After joining Kahn's group, the government said Snipes instructed his employees to stop paying their own taxes and sought $11 million in 1996 and 1997 taxes he legally paid.

Prosecutors sought to justify the maximum sentence by raising those and other details from the IRS investigation, as well as a tax loss even for years in which Snipes was acquitted of failing to file a return. Such "relevant conduct" is allowed by law for a judge's consideration at sentencing.

Criminal tax prosecutions are relatively rare — usually the cases are handled in civil court, where the government has a lower burden of proof. Prosecutors said Snipes' case was important to send a message to would-be tax protesters not to test the government.
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Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 08:39 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Not surprising. Just think about how much time he would have received if they had found (out about the $19 million he's got stashed away) in Southeast Asia. Hmmmm? You betcha! Oooops. Did I say that?
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Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 09:33 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Paris Hilton and Britany Spears Get sent home even though they are risking lives

...but they did not owe $$$$s in taxes, did they? The IRS does not play. Doesn't really matter who you are.
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Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 02:27 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

bullshit Yvettep

Willie Nelson owed the IRS $17 million in back
taxes --he settled by paying $6.5 million--14 years LATE

What about Marc Anthony Yvette?
What about Dominick Dunne?
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Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 03:27 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

What about them, Enchanted? Perhaps Mr. Snipes should have gone the settlement route instead of his conscientious objector tactic. The point is clear that it is not wise to try to subvert the tax system. Those examples you cited, however, are certainly more relevant ot this particular case than Spears and Paris Hilton.
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Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 03:29 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

ANd certainly against the backdrop of the latest high profile police lethal force case it definitely seems that justice overall is blind--and not in a good way.
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Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 05:36 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Yvette, you said "quote unquote":

The IRS does not play. Doesn't really matter who you are.




I say that apparently they DO play as
long as you're WHITE.


Willie Nelson owed the IRS $17 million in back
taxes --he settled by paying $6.5 million--14 years LATE

Not a day in jail.

What about Marc Anthony Yvette?
What about Dominick Dunne? :-)

They owed/owe MILLIONS in taxes and
weren't even arrested.




**Also please note that Wesley Snipes
paid $5 million to the IRS on the day
he was sentenced and offered to pay the
other $6 million if given time to do
so.

I don't like Wesley Snipes, I really
don't...

but this shit is RACIST pure
and simple. He's being crucified
because he's a black man.





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Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 05:52 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Folks who mess with the IRS do so at their own peril. Considering what Snipes could have gotten he should consider himself pretty lucky. In the grand scheme of injustices, including racially motivated injustices, three years for a millionaire who does not pay taxes like the rest of us is not cause for me shedding many tears.

(And I even happen to be a fan of his! LOL)
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Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 08:37 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Enchanted..your really Kola..aint ya..???
LiLi
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Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 08:43 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

no LIli
I thought you was Kola
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Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 08:44 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I wish you all would stop trying to make me
Kola. She doesn't post here anymore.
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Posted on Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 12:48 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

It's hard to believe anything you say, "enchanted", when one minute you claim you can't type and then you suddenly start posting legibly again, offering comments that reek with the kola vibe.
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Posted on Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 01:15 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Well Cyniuqe, it was you who made me come to love and appreciate Kola Boof.

btw, I have a new TypeSwitch in my office. It's great for pre-editing then copying and pasting. Shame you couldn't get one and put it where your heart ought to be.

go head call me Kola **yawn**



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Posted on Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 01:37 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Like I care whether or not you appreciate kola. That doesn't say a lot for you. How about I just call you "dip-shit"?
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Posted on Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 10:13 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Snipes been in the IRS's face with it. He didn't deny he'd made the money or insist he was qualified to take certain deductions nor was he even being a crook--he took the position that they had no right to tax him.

He's been driven crazy by all the crap he took in Hollywood--
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Posted on Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 10:14 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

By the way, the above Cynique-Enchanted exchange is what those long threads were often made up of.

"Is not!" "Is too!"

Go back and look at a few.
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Posted on Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 02:20 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Yes, there was always an ongoing exchange between me and the kola klones. But only because these klones could never pass up an opportunity sing the praises of kola no matter how much they claimed not to like her. Soooo transparent.
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Posted on Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 09:08 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Enchanted..no way in hail you thought I was Kola..because I posted..well Cyn posted it for me..a picture of myself and my great-granddaughter. I think your Kola..and thats ok..I gots no beef wif you or her
LiLi
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Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 01:05 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

but hasn't snipes got mega bucks?
why try to cheat the tax man when you got millions in the bank already?
i would understand if he was poor and struggling to survive and out of desperation makes a foolish decision but wes man, you let yourself down.
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Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 02:49 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

but hasn't snipes got mega bucks?
why try to cheat the tax man when you got millions in the bank already?
i would understand if he was poor and struggling to survive and out of desperation makes a foolish decision but wes man, you let yourself down.

(He went crazy. Jim Brown said that when he compared Athletes, Actors and Singer/Musician/Entertainers, the Actors were the most unstable because by the time they had made it they had been humiliated and pushed around so much they got megalomania)
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Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 03:01 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

i thought snipes was "mr clean"! dog!
now his behind is laid up in jail for 3 years!
triple damn dog!
how he gonna recover his career after this?
no wonder he ain't been making movies for sometime!
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Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 03:57 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

how he gonna recover his career after this?

(Easy. He will specialize in playing pimps, dopedealers, gang leaders--

Todd Bridges is doing okay, isn't he?)

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